Tested Right After the Call

In 2019, Keisha Morgan graduated top of her class from Howard University's school of education. Her professors praised her. Her family celebrated. She had the diploma, the honors, the calling confirmed. Two weeks later, she walked into her first classroom at a Title I school in Southeast D. C. — thirty-two seventh graders, a broken projector, no curriculum binder, and a student who told her on day one, "You won't last till Christmas."…